Remember fansubbed anime on vhs?

Remember fansubbed anime on vhs?

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>vhs

remember when we had to use smoke signals to watch anime

No

Most of Sup Forums wasn't even born by 1996

Born in 1979 and hell yes, I remember it.

Nah, I only remember watching Eva with real player

Yes

Yellow subs

Fuck that horrible subs is better

Why even watch something that was made before you was born? It makes no sense

and that's why Sup Forums is going downhill

No I was born in 1999

1986 reporting

>The majority of todays Sup Forums don't know Daicon IV

Why the fuck am I still here? I don't even like todays anime

1998 here

sucks to be you faggot

underageb&

epic

Was literally born during 1996 so I can attest to this

Yes, and I envy everyone that got to skip it. Mail order and tape trading was a pain in the ass. God bless the future

The future is great, isn't it?

I'm 19, Anonymous. Next year, people born in 2000 will be able to post.

No, grandpa.

No you don't understand

That's gold compared to what we had

VHS resolution was shit (240 lines?) And full of noise, plus the CRT grid meaning the subs were all fuzzy and messy

Then again I mostly watched Italian dubs as a kid

>Implying they aren't already

I'll have you know you used to record all my favourite anime with those.

Rewatching them was boring though. It was more of a keepsake.

1996 here.

But I think my dad used to watch Dragon ball on vhs...

I'm only 20 and I watched old Disney movies on VHS all the time as a babby.

I was aware of such a scene but never got into it. It seemed a bit shady to me at the time. I was paranoid of losing my hard earned allowance sending money orders to some random people I found out about on the internet in the hope I would get anime tapes in return.

No

I remember getting up at 5am every Saturday morning to watch 4kids anime and recording them on VHS, no subtitles tho I don't think I could read very well yet anyway...

1993, only anime I had on VHS was Pokemon though and at the time it was just another cartoon.

Way to out yourself.

Yeah when I was young I thought anime was just the drawing style people used for the srs cartoons

I still have bunch of horribly dubbed galaxy expresss 999 vhs somewhere

Idk man considering how many fresh Sup Forums poster flood into Sup Forums on regular basis I think most of this boards cancer were probably born after 2000

1969 here
im too old to be here I know, started to watch anime with my son and now im an addict

Honestly, no. I only ever watched Dragon Ball and Doraemon on VHS, and they were dubbed

Ranma 1/2 is closer to 1969 than 2017

1988 here

Don't forget about adjusting the tracking.

But even with all that, watching subs underground back then was somehow more satisfying than how mainstream torrenting or using YouTube or Crunchyroll is now.

Laserdiscs were also GOAT. I was a teenager by the 90s and had a pretty extensive film and anime collection on LD. I still miss the fuck out of that format.

I don't believe you, but I also don't really care.

What about betamax?

>beta

>What about betamax?
Lived too short

Remember hd-dvd? Yeah me neither
Everyone knows Blu-ray tho

Same thing

Just like Sup Forums

I almost sided with hd-dvd instead of bluray. Good that I decided to hold back on buying anything back then. Really thought that hd-dvd would be the one that would win

it's called betamax for a reason
because it's a fucking loser, that's why

You need to see where porn goes

VHS > Blu-ray

Flash > html5

720 > 1080 > 4k

As soon as porn moves, everyone does

Forgot dvd but you get the idea

I didn't even know there was other anime except Dragon Ball and YuGiYo until about 2007

There are more of us here in our 40s than you think, my other main board /out/ seems to have an older userbase too.

I'm in the same boat as you user. That's just the way it is.

1998 reporting in

Nothing greater than anime with shitty compressed composite NTSC video at 480i and "Hi-Fi" audio that would distort the pitch depending on the temperature/relative humidity that day.

No, I was only exposed to normie-tier dubbed anime in the 90s.

>watching subs underground back then was somehow more satisfying than how mainstream torrenting or using YouTube or Crunchyroll is now.
That's because it was far more communal back then. I swapped fansubbed VHS anime in college and rented VHS dubs of Ranma 1/2 in Los Angeles Koreatown videostores in the early 90s. Even the guys who didn't understand the funny dubbing still loved it, it was very much something you gathered around with friends.

There's a lot of scattered oldfags here. Been around Sup Forums literally since its inception in late 2003. Since then, I've had 2 kids and am now 2 1/2 years shy of retirement...

I remember getting miss-mailed a sneak peak VHS for pokemon when I was about 8. I can't remember if I later recorded Inuyasha onto VHS or DVD. I more fondly remember the first time I torrented. It was some python-written program that used 100% cpu, took me 3-4 weeks to download gundam wing. Dual audio .ogg format, 11g in total.

I used to download really low quality stuff using dc++ around 2002-2004 or something before moving to torrenting. Before that I just traded anime with other people who happened to have it

>this is a free translation if you paid for it you're an idiot

A buddy of mine was Mexican so he recorded Dragon Ball and Z on VHS. So I saw a good amount of Dragon Ball in Spanish.

Yes. I remember paying some Japanese exchange student for Bubblegum Crisis and the Tenchi Muyo OVAs. The AV club pretty much was dedicated to making cash on the side subbing anime on to VHS by the time I graduated high school. Hastings used to also have really cheap VHS and Laserdisk imports of anime during the 90's.

1993 too. I had internet so i quickly found out what anime was and couldnt get enough and scoured the local videostores, movie channels that played anime movies, and anywhere to get it. Luckily with the help of my older brother i eventually ran across some fansubbed vhs of DBZ but never got anywhere further than that to really feel like I was apart of the VHS fansubbing scene.

You would eventually find risque pictures of characters and transitioned not only looking for anime but more hentai.

At least that's what happened to me

1974 here. I never traded for fansubs on VHS, but I watched them at my college anime club when it was shown by people who did.

I miss fansubs in general I still have my Lucky Star batch that's in 480p.

I remember watching Cantonese dubs on VHS without subs

1993 here

>Yellow subs carried over to digital age as VOB subs
KUYASHIIIIIIIIIII

1975, it used to be a big thing back at my school

1988 here. I use to trade anime on vhs; i stared back in the late 90's with my neighbors help and one of the guys at a local video store before it closed down.

I was born in the best decade so no. Feels good knowing I'll experience technological advances well after you die and have tons of anime at my fingertips.

1999 here xD

>not for sale, rent, or e-bay

1998 here
im a 90s kid hahah xD

Except more porn was released on HD-DVD than Blu-ray in 2007.

93 signing off

>xD
Fuck off.

I didn't know this existed until Sup Forums brought it up a few years ago.

Isn't this thing posted nearly everyday?

I would assume the early works of Gainax would be known to any weeb.

:^)

The fuck is that? Earliest Gainax show I know is Gunbuster

:v

1997

>The are actually people on Sup Forums, right now, that don't know what Daikon IV is.

I fucking hate this place sometimes.

>tfw was never a part of any trade circle but bothered to go to Chinatown every other weekend to pay some chinese bootlegs $5 a video that either had fansubs or DVD rips of HK bootlegs

You are now aware that the primary age demographic of Sup Forums has always been, and will always be, 13-24 year-old white males. Everyone else is literally an outlier.

I still have them. The player broke down years ago though, and my usual repair guy said he can no longer find any spare parts for it.

ＶＣＲｓ cost like nothing just buy a new one dumbfuck. Who sends them out for repairs?

I'll buy your tapes off you.

I only watched dubbed/raw anime on vhs.

>but I watched them at my college anime club when it was shown by people who did.
Great times, weren't they? I remember my college anime "club" sharing old episodes of Conan, Bubblegum Crisis when it was brand spanking new, and even girls contributing with Candy Candy.

My mom watched and read Candy Candy when she was younger and got me and my younger sister hooked on Japanese anime and manga as children. When she had cancer a few years back my sis and I took turns watching old episodes of it on DVD when she was recovering in the hospital.

My kids are too young to watch stuff I like and frequently prefer watching Teen Titan Go and Spongebob.

1989 master race reporting in

>wearing out the rewind button while fapping to la blue girl and urotsukidoji

that was true dedication

You can buy a VCR for like $3-5 at thrift stores. I paid $7 for a VHS/DVD combo with component output.

People are just giving them away.

Of course not im not a fucking mummy

If he was getting it repaired he probably had a pretty high quality one (all things considered). A shitty one at a thrift store could chew up his tapes.

>Says he's a fan of Eva
>Doesn't own the entire series on vhs
How young are you people ?

>Of course not im not a fucking mummy
Do you kids think you're living in a better era than we did? I frequently feel sorry for you millenials.

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